{"id":64430,"date":"2018-11-06T18:18:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T23:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=64430"},"modified":"2018-11-06T18:18:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T23:18:42","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-november-5th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=64430","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, November 5th, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Monday, November 5th, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, in honor of the great Thomas Sowell, we humbly offer a couple random thoughts on the passing scene.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First consider this photo from a campaign urging women to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6341631\/Democrat-supporting-women-strip-photo-shoot-called-Grab-Ballot.html\">Grab Them by the Ballot<\/a><\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5649754-6341631-image-a-64_1541071774480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5649754-6341631-image-a-64_1541071774480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5649754-6341631-image-a-64_1541071774480.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5649754-6341631-image-a-64_1541071774480-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>A Jewish transgender woman, who goes by the initial Z, <em>took part in the shoot to point out <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">how the transgender community suffered under the rule of Republicans<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">\u201cDonald Trump&#8217;s administration<em> is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">aggressively<\/span> trying <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to define<\/span> transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming people <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">out of existence<\/span><\/em>,\u201d she told the\u00a0Daily Mail<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inquiring minds want to know <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>how<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>precisely<\/em><\/span> how&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>has<\/em><\/span> the transgendered community <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>SUFFERED<\/em><\/span> under the rule of Republicans, not to mention how The Donald is aggressively defining these deviants &#8220;out of existence&#8221;?!?\u00a0 By requiring them to use bathrooms <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>designed for their particular plumbing at birth<\/em><\/span>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, we have to confess our confusion: is a transgender woman a man who relates as a woman&#8230;or woman who relates as a man?\u00a0 And why, if her possession of a penis or vagina can be ignored due to Z&#8217;s feelings on a given day, should her status as a Jew bear any meaning on her identity?\u00a0 Could she not tomorrow, or the next day, be a Pakistani Muslim or Native American transgender woman?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item highlighting the idiocy inherent with Progressivism&#8217;s promotion of feelings over facts&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/travel\/paraplegic-athlete-drags-himself-through-terminal-after-airline-forgets-wheelchair-claims-airport-humiliated-him\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Paraplegic athlete drags himself through terminal, claims airport \u2018humiliated\u2019 him after airline forgets wheelchair<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/103873076_justinleveneairport2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64348\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/103873076_justinleveneairport2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/103873076_justinleveneairport2.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/103873076_justinleveneairport2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/103873076_justinleveneairport2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>A man paralyzed from the waist down is suing London\u2019s Luton airport after his custom-made self-propelling wheelchair was left behind on a flight, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>causing him to drag himself through the airport terminal<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Causing<\/em><\/span> him&#8221;?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1otTZq6UzLM?start=192\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sorry, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the facts<\/em><\/span>\u00a0tell a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>different story<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The incident took place when paraplegic athlete Justin Levene, 29, arrived at the airport August 2017 and learned his wheelchair was not there to meet him. <strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Though <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>airport staff offered to push him through the terminal in a traditional high-backed wheelchair<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff00ff;\"><em>Levene declined<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>calling the suggestion degrading and dangerous if he were strapped down<\/em><\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008080;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve worked very hard for a number of years to try and maintain all of my independence,\u201d\u00a0Levene said to BBC.<\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>\u201cAnd to be in one of the chairs <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">they<\/span><\/em> were offering <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>would make me feel humiliated and degraded<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dyod0e60kxk?start=42\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">After denying the airport&#8217;s wheelchair, Levene felt dragging himself through the airport was his only option \u2013 and for that he is suing the airport, claiming the staff had no \u201cempathy for what was happening.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Leven was filmed sliding himself through the airport terminal and lifting himself onto a baggage cart, which he used to push himself to a taxi out front.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The airport has defended itself in a statement to the BBC, saying its staff reacted properly given the circumstances. <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>&#8220;While we apologize if Mr. Levene was dissatisfied with the service he received, we are satisfied that our agents and staff did all they could in difficult circumstances,\u201d the airport said<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: from where <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we<\/em><\/span> sit, Justin Levene has a bone to pick against <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the world<\/em><\/span>, and the authorities at London&#8217;s Luton Airport merely served as a convenient target of opportunity for his ire.\u00a0 Everything about this story fairly screams&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t2c-X8HiBng?start=176\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>So we&#8217;d suggest Justin suck it up and accept reasonable man-made solutions to life&#8217;s unanticipated inconveniences&#8230;as that&#8217;s what <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD<\/em><\/span> has to do&#8230;including the people who had to step around him while he slid across the floor of Luton Airport.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of self-centered a*sclowns, it&#8217;s worth noting the individual&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/44433607_2085499125094913_7457255667083507442_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/44433607_2085499125094913_7457255667083507442_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/44433607_2085499125094913_7457255667083507442_n.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/44433607_2085499125094913_7457255667083507442_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/44433607_2085499125094913_7457255667083507442_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;who recently suggested (see our <em>Quote of the Day<\/em> at the top of the page) White male Conservatives pose the greatest threat to peace on the planet <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>also<\/em>\u00a0<em>seriously wondered<\/em><\/span> whether Malaysian Airways Flight 370 might have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/90-gHDibTZw?start=40&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">fallen victim to supernatural forces or been l<\/em><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>ost in a black hole<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Thus Don Lemon deserves the same respect accorded former Congressman Hank Johnson after, while questioning Admiral Bob Willard about a proposed increase in troop levels on Guam, he asked&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cesSRfXqS1Q?start=40\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which is absolutely zero.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We lead off the last edition before Decision Day 2018 with Holman Jenkins&#8217;s latest at the <em>WSJ<\/em>, as he accurately observes, when humans are considered as a group&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/we-are-a-homicidal-species-1541197411\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">We Are a Homicidal Species<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/we-are-a-homicidal-species-1541197411\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Better than engaging in political cheap shots would be figuring out how to use technology to protect us<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2lou28.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2lou28.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2lou28.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2lou28-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Homicide is known to have been a top cause of death in prehistoric societies, as well as in hunter-gatherer cultures that survived into modern times. This is what we\u00a0learn\u00a0from archaeology and ethnology. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Human beings are a murdering species<\/em><\/span>.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> I\u2019m not here to proselytize for a particular religion or philosophy, but if you haven\u2019t taken on board this ugly reality of human nature, please do so.<\/span> <em>If you are a pundit not conversant with the existence of evil, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">it\u2019s hard to see how you can be much use to an audience<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>An unconscious assumption of people who populate Sunday-morning talk shows goes like this: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The arc of history is pointing to human perfection<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>We\u2019ll get there when we have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">freed<\/span> ourselves <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">from corrupting ideologies and beliefs<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>i.e., Judeo-Christian-Conservative morals and values!<\/em>)<\/span>, <em>much like the specimens on Sunday-morning talk shows have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">already<\/span> done<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Why this fantasy persists in the face of daily experience and human history is a mystery for another time<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> <\/span>Maybe one day an edited version of human nature will be loaded into machines and sent on journeys of millions of miles to spread \u2019cross the galaxy a version of ourselves without our mad, vicious, hateful, homicidal tendencies. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>That\u2019s the dream of certain Silicon Valley technologists and visionaries. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It doesn\u2019t sound like the worst outcome.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>But neither would it be us<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Robert Bowers and Cesar Sayoc, the alleged Pittsburgh killer and antiliberal letter bomber, are very different cases.<\/span> That said, <em>it\u2019s worth noting that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">both freely broadcast their hateful attitudes to the pubic using social media<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> Mr. Bowers is reported to have acquired 21 guns and ammunition. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">By the estimate of\u00a0IBM\u00a0<span class=\"company-name-type\">,<\/span>\u00a02.5 quintillion bytes of data about us are created every day\u201490% of all the data in history has been created in the last two years.<\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><em>Using this data to understand <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">who bears watching<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">who might benefit from social intervention<\/span>, could <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in theory<\/span> be done in a nonoppressive way<\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">We should <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>try<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Even so, don\u2019t lose sight of another fact: For reasons not fully clear, the murder rate is at a 53-year low; after a slight uptick in 2015 and 2016, violent crime fell again in 2017.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>We are not\u00a0<\/em><em>in a \u201cstate of emergency<\/em><\/span>,\u201d as CNN\u2019s Bill Carter, in a spasm of cable one-upmanship, intoned on Sunday.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Like any journalist, I keep in memory a list of every ill-advised, off-color thing President Trump has said.<\/strong> <\/span>As this column pointed out after Charlottesville, it would pay him to play the media\u2019s game sometimes by saying the expected thing, in the expected way. The reasons are partly ignoble: In a country of 330 million people who have implements of mayhem within easy reach, bad things are going to happen. Sticking to the media script is how politicians minimize their risk in the blame game that frequently follows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">But his saner fans, as well as reporters who cover him at the White House, also get something the cable commentators don\u2019t\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he\u2019s mugging<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>He\u2019s putting on a show<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> For all the purple fits he supposedly throws in private, in public he\u2019s consistently good-natured if pungent. The tweets he rattles off at random denouncing a Dodgers pitching change, mocking the ratings of cable shows, etc., ought to dissipate any tendency to take any particular thing he says very seriously.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Plus <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">his statements<\/span> are but a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">teensy fraction of the political hysteria flowing daily from the media<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Let us phrase this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">delicately<\/span>: Who contributes to ginning up the political stakes in the minds of the overly credulous and outright deranged is a question that doesn\u2019t lend itself to an easy assumption that the culprit is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">always and only Donald Trump<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>If hyperbolic political speech were outlawed, there\u2019d be silence in America<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>We are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">better off<\/span>\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all of us<\/span>\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">focusing the blame on people who commit sick acts rather than trying to shift blame around for political advantage<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s worth remembering, with the possible exception of Genghis Khan, no humans in history have proved as homicidal as those promising l<\/strong><strong>ibert\u00e9&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/The-Reign-of-Terror-French-Revolution-Execution-of-Louis-XVI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/The-Reign-of-Terror-French-Revolution-Execution-of-Louis-XVI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/The-Reign-of-Terror-French-Revolution-Execution-of-Louis-XVI.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/The-Reign-of-Terror-French-Revolution-Execution-of-Louis-XVI-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;\u00e9galit\u00e9 and&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/hitler-stalin-mao-polpot-kim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/hitler-stalin-mao-polpot-kim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/hitler-stalin-mao-polpot-kim.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/hitler-stalin-mao-polpot-kim-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>fraternit\u00e9!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which should come as no surprise given the world received ample warning&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Winston-Churchill-on-Socialism-680x365.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64371\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Winston-Churchill-on-Socialism-680x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Winston-Churchill-on-Socialism-680x365.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Winston-Churchill-on-Socialism-680x365-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DYGDTXdVwAA6vUD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64372\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DYGDTXdVwAA6vUD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DYGDTXdVwAA6vUD.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DYGDTXdVwAA6vUD-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;of what <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>inevitably<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/skulls-1024x646.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64373\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/skulls-1024x646.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/skulls-1024x646.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/skulls-1024x646-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;follows such promises.\u00a0 At least for those less equal than others!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, writing at <em>NRO<\/em>, Andy McCarthy\u00a0offers an historically-accurate perspective on the legality\/constitutionality of anchor babies:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/11\/birthright-citizenship-14th-amendment-does-not-mandate\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202018-11-03&amp;utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The 14th Amendment Does Not Mandate Birthright Citizenship<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/11\/birthright-citizenship-14th-amendment-does-not-mandate\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202018-11-03&amp;utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I<span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">t was about removing vestiges of slavery, not regulating aliens<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blog-post-senator-howard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64346\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blog-post-senator-howard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blog-post-senator-howard.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blog-post-senator-howard-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Rarely noticed in our era of the Beltway Behemoth is how sparse the Constitution is on the matter of central-government power over aliens.<\/strong><\/span> The naturalization clause is the beginning and the end of it. Congress was given the power to prescribe what aliens needed to do to become Americans. But there is not a word in the Constitution about law enforcement, nothing about which aliens would be allowed into the country, or on what conditions they would be permitted to stay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Why <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span> that? <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Because such matters were understood to be\u00a0<em><i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">state<\/span>\u00a0<\/i><\/em>responsibilities.<\/span> The Constitution prescribes a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>federalist arrangement<\/em><\/span> in which the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>states retain sovereignty<\/em><\/span>. T<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>states<\/em><\/span> had control over their internal affairs.<\/span> From the founding through most of the 19th century, that was understood to include deciding which non-Americans would be permitted in their territories.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>America was vast, unsettled, and expanding ever westward.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> People were needed to fill it.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> And in the 1800s, aliens came to do just that, first in dribs and drabs and then, beginning in the 1840s, in droves. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">But, as University of Massachusetts immigration scholar\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalaffairs.com\/publications\/detail\/our-evolving-immigration-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vincent J. Cannato recounted in a comprehensive 2012\u00a0National Affairs\u00a0essay<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>, it was not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>until 1891<\/em><\/span> \u2014 at the dawn of the progressive era, after years of urging by the federal courts and some statutory fits and starts \u2014 that <em>Congress finally asserted <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">federal control<\/span> over immigration regulation and enforcement<\/em>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Indeed, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Ellis Island<\/em><\/span> opened in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>1892<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>essentially as a station charged with carrying out the 1891 Immigration Act<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This is a rich transitional history. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>I\u2019ve described it only briefly here to make the point that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the 14th Amendment was utterly unrelated to the challenge and complexities of immigration-law enforcement<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Again, the 14th Amendment was enacted in 1868, nearly a quarter-century before the federal government seized control of immigration regulation from the states.<\/span> The driving objective of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>14th<\/em><\/span> Amendment was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>to shore up deficiencies of the 13th<\/em><\/span> Amendment.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Though it had formally abolished slavery upon its 1865 adoption, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>13th<\/em><\/span> Amendment <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>failed<\/em><\/span> to prevent the states from denying black former slaves the privileges and immunities of citizenship.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>As University of Texas Law School professor\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/lawprofessors.typepad.com\/files\/graglia1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Lino Graglia has explained<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>, Congress <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>attempted<\/em><\/span> to address this shameful situation by enacting the Civil Rights Act of 1866.<\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">President Andrew Johnson\u2019s veto of the measure was overridden, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but it heightened uncertainty about Congress\u2019s authority to act<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <em>The purpose of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">14th<\/span><\/em> Amendment<em> was to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">remove all doubt<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>That is the main point<\/em><\/span>: The 14th Amendment was meant to ensure that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the necessary relief for former slaves could not be undone by subsequent Congresses or court decisions<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> <\/span>As we shall come to, the Supreme Court later resorted to the 14th Amendment in order to address an injustice done to an adult child of immigrants under the noxious\u00a0Chinese Exclusion Act. The Court, however, was wrong to do so \u2014\u00a0certainly, to the extent that its ruling can be read (and has been read) to usurp Congress\u2019s constitutional power to prescribe citizenship qualifications for children born in the United States of aliens who are not legally here. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The 14th Amendment was about black people enslaved in America for generations<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> It was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> about aliens transiting America <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>illegally<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ve said it before, we&#8217;ll say it again: <em>is it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">any wonder<\/span><\/em>\u00a0why Progressives prefer their pawns <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>utterly ignorant of history<\/em><\/span>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us to\u00a0<em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blue-wave.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64337\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blue-wave.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blue-wave.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blue-wave-300x209.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/85_Chance20181102120937.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/85_Chance20181102120937.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/85_Chance20181102120937.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/85_Chance20181102120937-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/free.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64339\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/free.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/free.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/free-300x218.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/afb110118dAPR20181101054708.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/afb110118dAPR20181101054708.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/afb110118dAPR20181101054708.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/afb110118dAPR20181101054708-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Facebook_Debate_lr_11-1-1820181102025726.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64335\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Facebook_Debate_lr_11-1-1820181102025726.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Facebook_Debate_lr_11-1-1820181102025726.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Facebook_Debate_lr_11-1-1820181102025726-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/afb110218dAPR20181102054506.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64336\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/afb110218dAPR20181102054506.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/afb110218dAPR20181102054506.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/afb110218dAPR20181102054506-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/payn_c16101320181101120100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64342\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/payn_c16101320181101120100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/payn_c16101320181101120100.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/payn_c16101320181101120100-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mle181102c20181102012131.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64343\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mle181102c20181102012131.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mle181102c20181102012131.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mle181102c20181102012131-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64330\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image002.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image002-285x300.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Image-11-2-18-at-8.33-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Image-11-2-18-at-8.33-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Image-11-2-18-at-8.33-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Image-11-2-18-at-8.33-AM-300x165.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/33.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64334\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/33.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/33.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/33-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/33-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64327\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-1.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-1-246x300.jpeg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64328\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-2.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-2-300x256.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64329\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download-287x300.jpeg 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, going full circle, we&#8217;ll call it a day with the <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Misplaced Priorities<\/em><\/span> segment, and this just in from the subcontinent:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/man-eating-tiger-who-is-believed-to-have-killed-13-people-is-shot-dead-in-india-after-major-hunt\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\">Man-eating tiger who is believed to have killed 13 people is shot dead in India after major hunt<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Tiger_eating_meat_2618003b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64324\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Tiger_eating_meat_2618003b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Tiger_eating_meat_2618003b.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Tiger_eating_meat_2618003b-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>A tigress in India who is suspected of having killed <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>at least<\/em><\/span> 13 people over two years was shot and killed in India after a hunt Friday night, officials said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The tigress, who was believed to be six years old, was also known as T-1. Rangers were called to a place near Borati village after residents spotted the man-eating tiger, the\u00a0BBC\u00a0reported. The plan was to shoot the tiger with a tranquilizer by a patrol team but the tigress charged. The tigress was killed by a single shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Residents who lived in the area <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>were said to be overjoyed after learning of the tiger\u2019s death<\/em><\/span>,\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0reported. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">However, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>wildlife activists<\/em><\/span> <em>did not feel the same<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>This is a coldblooded murder<\/em><\/span>,\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Jerryl Banait, an advocate for animal rights, said<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.atimanarj.com\/India\/384172\/activists-livid-after-man-eater-tigress-avni-shot-dead-by-officials-in-maharashtra\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Atimanarj News noted without a hint of irony<\/em><\/span><\/a>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>In this case, <em>there <\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>weren\u2019t<\/em><\/span><em> too many arguments <\/em><em>about\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>whether or not<\/em><\/span><em> Avni was responsible for the human killings<\/em> but there <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>were<\/em><\/span> a lot about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>whether humans had any business being where they were<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Animal rights activists saw them as encroachers, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and argued that she couldn\u2019t be called a man-eater because she hadn\u2019t entered human habitations to kill people<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> The forest department, the local government, even the Supreme Court <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>saw it otherwise<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In other words, the protestations of Dr. Jerryl Banait and his fellow animal rights advocates <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>well beyond<\/em><\/span> the reach of Avni&#8217;s paws notwithstanding&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/L22rKooB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64362\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/L22rKooB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/L22rKooB.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/L22rKooB-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/L22rKooB-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1539714289-BCCL.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64363\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1539714289-BCCL.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1539714289-BCCL.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1539714289-BCCL-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;those tasked with <em>preserving the rights<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and lives<\/em><\/span> of <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the tigress&#8217;s preferred food source<\/span><\/em>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/47417b1892e98cf818929f3408713ec1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64364\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/47417b1892e98cf818929f3408713ec1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/47417b1892e98cf818929f3408713ec1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/47417b1892e98cf818929f3408713ec1-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tiger-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64365\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tiger-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tiger-4.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tiger-4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>fortunately<\/em><\/span> felt <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>otherwise<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which just goes to prove, Liberalism <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span> a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>debilitative mental disease<\/em><\/span> which <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>transcends<\/em><\/span> race, religion, color, creed <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> national origin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monday, November 5th, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, in honor of the great Thomas Sowell, we humbly offer a couple random thoughts on the passing scene. First consider this photo from a campaign urging women to Grab Them by the Ballot: \u00a0&#8220;&#8230;A Jewish transgender woman, who goes by the initial Z, took part in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64431,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64430\/revisions\/64431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}